From -6813871112195133488 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,7317cd62b805354f X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: comeau@panix.com (Greg Comeau) Subject: Re: What's POD? Was: size of empty class? Date: 1999/06/09 Message-ID: <7jjjuk$ach$1@panix.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 487335090 Approved: Fergus Henderson References: <7j8v2k$l95$1@uuneo.neosoft.com> <375B4F0E.275FC699@spots.ab.ca> <375BE6CD.230C02F3@physik.tu-muenchen.de> X-Original-Date: 8 Jun 1999 13:29:56 -0400 X-Complaints-To: news@news.unimelb.edu.au X-Trace: izvestia.its.unimelb.edu.au 928897456 8679 128.250.29.16 (9 Jun 1999 03:04:16 GMT) Organization: Comeau Computing; http://www.comeaucomputing.com X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.std.c++ iQBFAgUAN13ZoOEDnX0m9pzZAQExEwF+J1WSC9QyiGyZz2BdIF48i78qxWMxIdqZ c4CSo32+5dWnBdCV5nqhP5IUi1x9Taf3 =b6yb Reply-To: comeau@comeaucomputing.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Jun 1999 03:04:16 GMT Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ X-Newsposter: trn 4.0-test55 (26 Feb 97) In article <375BE6CD.230C02F3@physik.tu-muenchen.de> Christopher Eltschka writes: >[PODs are] not automatically initialized, except if they are static objects. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Not what? Please elaborate. >You can think of PODs as just dead data lying around in memory, >instead of full objects which take care for themselves. This might imply to some they are unconstructed or something, but the implication should be that they are dead data in the sense of C objects. - Greg -- Comeau Computing, 91-34 120th Street, Richmond Hill, NY, 11418-3214 Producers of Comeau C/C++ 4.2.38 -- New Release! We now do Windows too. Email: comeau@comeaucomputing.com / Voice:718-945-0009 / Fax:718-441-2310 *** WEB: http://www.comeaucomputing.com *** --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://reality.sgi.com/austern_mti/std-c++/faq.html ]